proper noun
Ŏlympĭas
Meaning
- the daughter of Neoptolemus
Ŏlympĭas, ădis, f., = Ὀλυμπιάς,
I. the daughter of Neoptolemus, king of Epirus, consort of king Philip of Macedon and mother of Alexander the Great, Cic. Div. 1, 23; 2, 66; id. N. D. 2, 27; Curt. 5, 2 fin.
Ŏlympĭas, ădis, m., = Ὀλυμπιάς,
I. a north-west wind, that blows on the island of Eubœa, Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 120; 17, 24, 37, § 232.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Olympias adis, f
, Ὀλυμπιάς, an Olympiad, interval of four years between Olympic games: prima.—Poet.: quinquennis, a period of five years (cf. lustrum), O.
In English words that came into English from Ŏlympĭas
- OlympiadŎlympĭas
In the Academy Smith's classical dictionaries
Biography & mythologyOlympiasOlympias (Ὀλυμπιάς). 1. Wife of Philip II., king of Macedonia, and mother of Alexander the Great. She was the daughter of Neoptolemus I., king of Epei…AntiquitiesOlympiasOlympias (Ὀλυμπιάς), the most celebrated chronological era among the Greeks, was the period of four years which elapsed between any one and the next f…